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Garrett Armbruster ’10 presented a poster titled “ Forecasting Lake Effect Precipitation for Upstate New York” at the 35th Annual Northeastern Storm Conference held in Saratoga, N.Y., on March 6. The American Meteorological Society, the National Weather Service, and Lyndon State College sponsored the conference. The work Armbruster presented was based on his senior thesis with Prof. Cynthia Domack in the Hamilton College Geosciences Department and an internship with meteorologist Adam Musyt at WKTV, Utica.

The Hamilton Board of Trustees’ unanimous vote to adopt a need-blind policy in admission received broad national and local media coverage. Beginning with The New York Times in its print edition and on its education blog "The Choice," news of the policy change spread quickly on Monday, March 8. Both Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education also released online articles on the decision.

An interview with Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali was recently published in Africultures, an online magazine for Francophone African Studies.

Five students and three French faculty members spent the weekend of March 5-7 exploring Ottawa, the Canadian capital. The group was led by Visiting Assistant Professor of French Julie Kruidenier Tolliver '02, a native of the Ottawa region. The students and faculty experienced the distinctive character of a bilingual city situated at the juncture of anglophone Ontario and francophone Quebec.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented “Afrocentrism or Assimilation: the Case of Rita Dove's ‘Darker Face of the Earth’” at the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series “Greek Drama in African-American Theatre” on March 13, at Northwestern University. The Sawyer Seminars examine the reception of Athenian drama in socio-political contexts and are part of Northwestern’s Classical Traditions Initiative.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn gave a talk, "Permutations and Geometric Realizations of Complete Bipartite Graphs," at the Discrete Mathematics Seminar at the University of Victoria on March 8. The presentation was based on her current sabbatical leave research, which uses the combinatorial structure of inversions in permutations to classify the straight-line drawings of complete bipartite graphs. The topic is an offshoot of joint work with Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin.

While many undergraduates head home or to balmy beach resorts to rest up after grueling midterms, 98 Hamilton students will drive south to volunteer at nonprofit organizations in nine cities during Spring Break, March 13-28. This year marks Hamilton's 17th Alternative Spring Break (ASB), an annual volunteer venture that consists of nine different community service trips to non-profit organizations in the south.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of Chinese and director of Associated Colleges in China Program, has been appointed chair of the AP Chinese Development Committee for 2010-2013.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin recently published a research article "Determining Sets, Resolving Sets, and the Exchange Property" in Graphs and Combinatorics. In this work, Boutin examines two classes of subsets in a network, each of which can be used to uniquely identify both the vertices and the symmetries of the network. In particular she examines when such subsets are analogous to a basis, a set that is fundamental to other areas of mathematics.

Sixty-eight members of the Hamilton College Choir and College Hill Singers will spend the first week of their spring break in March touring the Northeast as part of the annual choir tour. This year's tour will take the choir as far south as Arlington, Va., and north to Burlington, Vt.